Then, there’s the Tea Party movement. In a way, you’ve got to hand it to them. They’ve managed to hijack the national conversation from job creation and overall economic health to one of deficit and default. This despite the fact that a recent CBS News/New York Times poll found that when asked to identify the most important problem currently facing the United States, more than half (53%) responded jobs or the economy while a mere 7% mentioned the budget deficit or national debt.

- How the Tea Party turned the media’s ‘liberal bias’, Guardian.co.uk, August 5, 2011.

About the author:

Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.

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